Social Event

December 21, 1985|By Harry J. Petroski.

CHICAGO — What originally was to be a summit between two leaders to discuss nuclear arms control and human rights turned into a fashionable social gathering to exchange handshakes, take a stroll through the gardens, while the first ladies sipped almond tea, one attired in a mink coat, the other in a plain cloth coat with fur collar, and to end the first day of the summit the leaders and their wives exchanged nightcaps.